ABSTRACT
I then waking, and being alone in the Chamber, fancy'd I heard some rushing kind oj Noise, and discern'd something at the Bed's-Foot like a Shadow; which I apprehended to have been a Spirit. Hereupon, I was seiz'd with great Fear and Trembling, rose in Haste, went forth into the Outer-Chamber in great Consternation, and walk'd up and down in it as one amaz'd. 1
If 'the devil' has succeeded in unsettling Trosse's hold on his own language, it is, apparently, in order to replace it with a discourse borrowed from legitimate forms of Christian worship.
